Craigslist is weird...

[Pieper]

I have sold so much old electronics (but still nice) for great prices - always have like 20 people respond to my posts - meet them weird places - sell for cash - they never even turn the stuff on to check it out - weird

[SpaceMonkey]

Deck 2 on the 'Barbie Karaoke Machine' you sold me last we is non-op. What's your refund policy?

[withremote]

people get murdered on Craigslist

[mnott]

For Sale > Electronics > Casual Encounters

[squeegeethree]

I had a friend selling a $300 couch on craig's list. The guy who bought it called and said his secretary had accidentally cut the check for $3000. If she could please deposit the check then she could keep an extra $200 if she gave the movers a check for $2500. Hello money laundering.

[ThePaleBird]

More like he writes you a bad check and gets your 2500.

[the hipoisie]

Maybe you just seem like an honest person? I bought an old guitar amp off craigslist without trying it out. It was a good deal, and the guy told me about the problems it had, so I wasn't too concerned. I met him at a Wawa parking lot, and when he opened his trunk for the amp, he also had a baseball bat in there... only a little sketchy.

[B-DROID]

Maybe he played baseball?

[soupsandwich]

Originally Posted by squeegeethree

I had a friend selling a $300 couch on craig's list. The guy who bought it called and said his secretary had accidentally cut the check for $3000. If she could please deposit the check then she could keep an extra $200 if she gave the movers a check for $2500. Hello money laundering.

yeah thats the classic scam, the check will turn out to be no good. Some of the most bold ones I've seen ( not always Craigslist related) are people selling "junk" cars that don't even belong to them, people renting out vacant apartments, when they have no connection to the property...

[Holly]

Here in Chicago on the news in the past few days, there was a scam going at a prominent cemetery, in which some of the employees were digging up graves, tossing the bodies in a remote area of the grounds and reselling the plots. So far, they've found over 300 bodies that were "displaced." I don't know if they were reselling the plots on Craigslist, tho.